Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17
HENRY GEORGES DREAMS
Professor Swing Oevotes an Hour
5. 40 the Apostles Of
Free Land.
Their System Of Reform Faulty Be-
cause Based Upon Defect.
i've Diagnosis.
The Greatest Monopolies Not of Land
-Tany Millions of Acres Beg
gtng for Owners.
Chicago Inter ocean.


morning, MS subject beng "HeDry
Georges Dream" Professor Swing
found his text in the following words:
For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made by han ds-igures of the true-but into
heaven itself. Hebrews, tx, 2t-WhiCh was q
figure for the time then present.-Peter, tx, 9.
The figure of baptism.-I. Peter, ILL.,, u.
Much peace is coming to many minds
by the realization Ghet mankind speaks
through figures and does not mean that
the thing said should be regarded as q
finality If Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
had been composed 5000 years ago and
had been recently exhumed and translated
By some simple tribe of some Pacific
island, those new ;childlike readers would
be amazed and delighted over the curious
men and women and creatures which
once held sway in this planet Apollyon,
Great Heart, Lord Hategood, Giant
Despair, Miss Muchafraid and Mr.. Feeble
mind would stand as the real personeges
OF some popular place and time, while
the Wicket Gate, the Debatable Mount
aims,
BEULAH LAND, AND PANDEMONIUM
would stand as sacred places in our
planet, but whose location had become
lost. 1t is probable that our Biblical
students who are attempting to find the
pillar of salt into which Lots wife was
transformed, or who are seeking the par
tiCular mountain upon which the ark
rested, are repeating in our day this
hypothesis about the works of John
Bunyan, Our world is full of material
things which are on hand to arrest the
first attention and first thought of the
brain, nd'thus entering into our infancy,
they shape the forms Of thought and lay
the foundations OF language. When the
mother asks her little child how much it
loves her, it answers by "bushels," Or "a
housetul," or else spreads its hands out
to express the size Of the affection. Older
persons attain &c little more OF abstract
ness Snd real truthfulness, but they, too,
are at the mercy Of the language of
figures. 1t is difficult Tor any age, how
ever cultivated, to mark distinctly the
boundary between the embIematical and
the real. When baptism was a young
idea, the putting Of the body under water
may have recalled wildly the death of
sly one and of all, and the rising up from
the water may have expressed well the
rising Of Christ
FROM THE DEAD,
put the symbol stood also for washing
Of the soul from sinfulness, stood for q
clean heart, and it is not wonderful or
injurious If at last the things sigDified
begin to stand up in their own strength,
ana ii baptism as a symbol becomes re-
duced to q mere spTinkling OF the fore
head with few drops of water.
Some Biblical students maintain that
the commandment: against making i'm
ages Of God swept onward and made I'M
lawful all image -makiDg, as though the
arts of painter and sculptor might lead
the people away from the pure end sim
pie reality; bur such law would be use
less if literature were left 10 throw upon
society its luxuTiant harvest of likenesses
of things in heaven and upon earth. As
dealers in images, the painter, sculptor
and Coppersmiths are petty producers and
petty statesmen, compared with the army
of writers who have marched 10 and fro
over the face Of the earth Haunting their
gay banners and piping their sweet music.
Almost all ancient literature is a colleC-
ton OF craven images, only the instru-
ment was not Chisei nor brush, but q
pen. Job was
PICTURE MAKER.
His treatise opens with wonderful
grouping Of hail, wind, fire, war snd
death, such as leave JOB and his plying
friends to sit nine days upon the ground.
What a scene is that skelched as Eden
Adam, Eve, serpent, and God in q
garden Of tropical plants! The serpent
talking, Eve listening, Adam hiding, and
God coming. great scene is that
where the wife of Lot becomes pillar Of
salt along the highway out of the city Of
Sodom, while upon SOd0m itself there is
seen falling q shower of fire, Such is all
of old letters, and, indeed, in & degree
all of literature up 10 the present genera
ton. The mind begins with the senses,
and in order 10 understand spiritual
things it attempts to project some likeness
Of them upon some external canvas.
Hence comes the pictorial character Of
literature and OF all thought.
Here we stand, year after year, in our
immense gallery, and do not seem to
know that what we see is often not reality
but only an illustration. As OF late years
great battle scenes have been painted
and so hung that ail the ways of com
carlson are cut of and the spectator
does not seem to be looking st picture,
but seems to be out in the midst Of
FIELDS AND MOUNTAINS,
troops, camps, guns and battle. So IN
theology, and in eli the abstract forms of
thought, we stand amid figures and esti-
mate an image as 8 man or god, and
mistake a spread Of paint for e living
soul. The heaven which our most re
mote ancestors sketched as having
paved with gold, having an in
population, al winged, ell
musicians, all playing upon harps OF
gold, became at once q thrilling reality
end to-day the image stands for fact.
Il is the craven image, not of God, but OF
Immortality-an effort of the mind to ex-
press the unknown. The ancients made
images of God; we have outgrown that
special form of childhood, but eur child
hood still lives in other realms Of thought.
When tae Roman Catholic takes the
bread or wafer upon his lips
1t becomes TO him the body of Christ, and
he tasted the Lords blood, and when the
priest has tasted the wine for the people
he has tasted the shed blood Of Calvary.
The people adopt compound image;
the wine is the blood and the priest is the
people. Thus two walls Of imagery
stand between the common peonle and
their souls communion with God.
THE PUBLIC MIND
cannot often pass beyond the pictures and
reach absolute reality. But when the